Wednesday Musings
So a couple of things caught my attention today that I wanted to share. The first of which is that my love affair with Google continues. There’s news today that from some documentation found on Google Docs, Google appears to be getting ready to launch “Google Presently”, a web based presentation application aimed to compete with Microsoft Powerpoint. At this point, Google’s office suite would be nearly complete! As a matter of fact just today, I ran into a problem with my install of Excel. That’s when I realized that I sitll had Google Docs to fall back on. For the limited operation that I was trying to do, I had all the tools there at my finger tips. With the introduction of “Presently”, this is just one more tool. Heck if I were a student now, I might even shun all MS Office products and use Google Apps!
On another note, just months after the whole Dell battery fiasco, it looks like there’s a bit of nasty press swirling around the computer giant again. It looks like a grounding problem on some Dell laptops could cause a nasty shock of between 19 and 139 Volts! Now before everyone panics, lets keep in mind that what really matters is current (I = V/R). So while 139 volts likely won’t kill you, let’s just say that this wouldn’t be an expericne you would want to repeat. From what I can tell, affected laptops are Dell 9400/e1705/m1710/m90.
And one final musing for the night. An esteemed New York State Senator is trying to impose a fine for using portable electronic devices while walking. His position cites three recent cases where people have been killed because they weren’t paying attention and were too focused on their electronic devices. Let me tell you something. It is certainly unfortunate that this happened to these individuals, but I’m thinking this is one battleground that the government needs to stay out of. I mean seiously, why did they get hit in the first place? Was it because the vehicle operator was too busy chatting on the cell phone? Or were they distracted by a digital billboard?
And by the way, the migration to WordPress 2.1 didn’t quite go as seemlessly as I was hoping for. As a matter of fact, I’ve had to look for some new plugins to replace/upgrade what I used previously for several things including my news feeds, links page, and del.icio.us link roll in the sidebar. Oh well, such is life!
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